Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

While we should be duly impressed with Archer Mayor's 19 Joe Gunther novels, it must be noted that William G. Tapply has penned no fewer than 24 novels featuring Boston attorney Brady Coyne. His latest, Hell Bent, reintroduces a ghost from Coyne's past, old flame Alex Sinclair, whom he has not seen in the seven years following their rather acrimonious split. She has not paid the visit...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Erica Spindler's Copycat offers up one of the more original premises for a suspense novel in recent memory: Five years ago, three young girls from three separate families were strangled in their own beds, with their parents asleep just down their respective halls. The bodies were arranged precisely, and the serial murderer, known as the Sleeping Angel Killer, was never caught. Fast- forward to...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

HODUNIT? Unraveling the gender mystery There is an old adage to the effect that men write books for men, women write books for women and never the twain shall meet, particularly in mystery fiction. Stereotypes abound, not all of them unfounded. Female authors dish in liberal, nay, copious doses of breathy romance the heroine can ruminate at some length regarding what kind of tea goes best with...

Audio Column by Bruce Tierney

UNIT? Unraveling the gender mystery There is an old adage to the effect that men write books for men, women write books for women and never the twain shall meet, particularly in mystery fiction. Stereotypes abound, not all of them unfounded. Female authors dish in liberal, nay, copious doses of breathy romance the heroine can ruminate at some length regarding what kind of tea goes best with...